4087 Pärt

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4087 Pärt is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1172.7774125 days (3.21 years).[1]

The asteroid was discovered on March 5, 1986 and named after Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.

Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 2004–2005 show a rotation period of 16.47 ± 0.02 hours with a brightness variation of 0.59 ± 0.03 magnitude.[2]

References

  1. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. Retrieved 2008-05-17. 
  2. Pray, Donald P. (September 2005), "Lightcurve analysis of asteroids 106, 752, 847, 1057, 1630, 1670, 1927 1936, 2426, 2612, 2647, 4087, 5635, 5692, and 6235", Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers 32 (3): 48–51, Bibcode:2005MPBu...32...48P. 
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